Barbara Walters to Leave 'The View' in 2014

3/29/2013 9:05AM

Longtime TV personality Barbara Walters will retire from television in 2014 and end her 17-year stint as host of 'The View.' TVNewser.com senior editor Alex Weprin explains what the change means to one of ABC's most lucrative programs.Photo: Getty Images.

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... the the ... Barbara Walters will leave the EU next year when she's planning to retire from TV ... Alex leper a senior editor of TV news here is here with deatails Alex thinks the most common things for me okay so ... a long career she's she starred in TV on the today show ... as a writer producer womens' in women's interest stories in nineteen sixty two she was chooses to be a girl ... which was the term ... all you know ... a feel for uses on staff at the time the US and in fact ... I'm pretty to look at the age that if the kids the site that she's the first woman ever to be called ... of really be called co hosted two to secure that in nineteen seventy four I think it was she was a ground breaker when she was the first female co anchor of today she moved up to the ranks there she gained the respect of staff there and the viewers ... later on of course the BBC she became the first female pointer of the evening news ... so she's a ground breaker for women in intelligence so why should we be now ... well she's had a fifty two year career she's no easy answers was probably sees it the most worries ... aam is entirely clear ... why she's retiring now I feel a kinship with Regis Philbin that she's never really going to retire percent Chile's be on TV ... but dove and certainly she had her up to cheaper earlier this week in a health scare ... chickenpox and the andthe on downstairs the British ambassador's residence in Washington ... and shows off telling for few months as a result ... so ... it looks increasingly likely that you know and that may have ... to play the part that the BBC may be ready to ... to move on ... with some of it there's there's there's a speedy when shelters ... a few changes happening on the fuel ... I enjoyed a hair is another host she's also leaving actually before she's reading this fall ... our Walters is plainly next year and a lot of terrible at a lot of people to to replace ... yet is that the next Justin Bieber importantly it will be without joy they are ... Elizabeth Hasselbeck is not officially said she's leaving but it's widely believed that you will not be returning next season twice that ... of that is unclear but so I've heard multiple well placed sources say that she will not be returning next year and it might be her decision like the ABC's decision but ... we'll see what happens but if those two people to leave and that you can have a totally different look NextEra ... and if it is in fact Barber's last year on the deal is going to be a pivotal year ... because of paying what happens it may come back the year after that the twenty fourteen to twenty fifteen season ... or it may not come back all week and we need them says for for viewers how important financially ... to delist ABC s I believe that the show to get a hundred and twenty three million dollars in ad revenue I think that makes it ... that the most lucrative daytime daytime ... Tele show enormous today is is still believed to be the might be limited in the middle of a part in the middle the day after the morning shows and coming on on the part that starts yes it is ... most likely the most part is the talk we talk I guess gets ... eighty million or selling your or it's a little less expensive to produce though but yet the interview has been on a fifteen year strong still the strong ratings ... it ... does very well freebies ... okay now ... so this makes Whoopi Goldberg the elder statesman the show after all this turned over to the ... well again if if Barber does that leave the view entirely then not then who will be Goldberg would be the elder statesman and last I wanna get you quickly with thirty seconds ... twenty think ... anyone are two names you think could end up on the show ... who funding J McCarthy was named earlier she tried to ... you know ... put that down a little bit about Indyke I could see J McCarthy coming on the show Jenny McCarthy on the field of tech ... house Leppard senior editor of TV news or think so much for coming from